Detox diets for toxin elimination and weight management: a critical review of the evidence

Klein, Alice; Kiat, Hosen

doi:10.1111/jhn.12286

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“…In addition to limiting carbohydrates, it recommends eating fat-burning fats, high-fiber vegetables and fruit, clean protein, and thermogenic foods and supplements (Gittleman 2012). Caloric intake on the fat flush plan ranges from 1100 to 1600 calories per day, which is in line with the nutrition recommendations for weight loss (Klein and Kiat 2015).…”

Section: Fat Flush Diet (Detox Diet)supporting

confidence: 66%

Physiological process of fat loss

2019

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Background: Adipose tissue is a type of connective tissue composed of adipocytes. Recently, this tissue has been recognized as a major endocrine organ. The physiological process of fat loss occurs when fats are liberated from adipocytes into circulation to supply the needed energy. Nutrition supplements that increase fat metabolism, impair fat absorption, increase weight loss, and increase fat oxidation during exercise are known as fat burners. A good fat burner must burn the stored fats, break down the fat cells, and increase the metabolic rate. Eating thermogenic foods helps burn fats. Fat flush diet comes to repair the damage that resulted from ingested and environmental toxins stored in adipocytes. Aim of work:This review will focus on the recent advances in fat burning supplements, fat burning foods, and fat flash diet. Conclusion:The human body can act as a fat-burning machine by depending on low-calorie foods instead of high-calorie foods in addition to doing regular exercise, avoiding toxins and processed food, and applying any fat flush dietary program under the approval of a professional doctor. What's new in this review is that it may orient our attention to the importance of using natural fat burners in the fat burning process in an attempt to avoid medications that have many side effects by targeting other organs and it also gives an idea of the importance of increasing the brown adipose tissue content because its activation could be linked to a feeling of being full. We need further studies in this context.

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Section: Fat Flush Diet (Detox Diet)supporting

confidence: 66%

Physiological process of fat loss

2019

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“…The vegetarian diets can be lowered several POPs level in type 2 diabetes [39]. However, a possible risk of detoxification diets could be nutritional imbalances, we need to consider of nutritional restriction diets [32]. There was no significant difference between pre and during macro-nutrients including carbohydrate, fat and protein in this study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…Some studies insisted that detoxification intervention can eliminate the body pollutants while, several physicians are concerned about the effects and warning of its harm [28,29]. Though some difficulties in standardized detoxification regimens, dietary detoxification intervention may effect on the health outcomes [16,30–32]. …”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of the Dietary Detoxification Program on Serum γ-glutamyltransferase, Anthropometric Data and Metabolic Biomarkers in Adults

Kim

Kang

2016

J Lifestyle Med

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BackgroundPersistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are well-known environmental contaminants which are associated with chronic diseases. As foods are the major sources of human exposure to toxic pollutants, we developed an integrated dietary and education program to eliminate the chemical toxin throughout the human body. The present study evaluated effects of the dietary detoxification program on serum γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT), anthropometric data and metabolic biomarkers in adults.MethodsSingle-armed, pre-post study was conducted from June 2013 to June 2015 at a health examination center and a public health center in Seoul, Korea. Sixty eight subjects (mean age of 52.4 years) were recruited. Subjects participated 20 hours’ dietary education sessions. On-line coaching with SNS was performed to enhance participants’ proper protocol compliance. Physical and laboratory examinations were assessed at week 0 and 3.ResultsChanges of the serum GGT were correlated with reductions of the body fat percentage (r = .379, p = .001), body fat mass (r = .435, p = .000) and fasting blood glucose (r = .423, p = .000). Serum GGT, weight, body fat percentage, body fat mass, waist circumference, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triglyceride, total cholesterol, and blood pressure of all participants were reduced with statistical significance in 3 weeks. In metabolic syndrome group, total cholesterol (p = .049), fasting blood glucose (p = .002), and systolic blood pressure (p = .001) were significantly reduced comparison to non-metabolic syndrome group.ConclusionThis dietary detoxification program might decrease serum GGT which indicated the overall toxic burden in the body. Anthropometric data and metabolic biomarkers were improved. The integrated dietary and education detoxification program seemed to be a protective intervention for elimination of toxicants from the body.

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“…Given ambiguities in the concept of health (Van Dyke 2018), and financial incentives for corporations and producers to have their diet or food product appear healthy, it may not be surprising that wildly different and sometimes incompatible ways of eating are lauded as healthy. Healthy eating could mean counting calories, eating organic, following a Mediterranean diet, avoiding GMOs, or partaking in foods that "flush out" fat or "detox" your organs (Klein and Kiat 2015;Mohammadi 2014;Zeratsky 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Eating Identities, “Unhealthy” Eaters, and Damaged Agency

Dean

2018

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This paper argues that common social narratives about unhealthy eaters can cause significant damage to agency. I identify and analyze a narrative that combines a “control model” of eating agency with the healthist assumption that health is the ultimate end of eating. I argue that this narrative produces and enables four types of damage to the agency of those identified as unhealthy eaters. Due to uncertainty about what counts as healthy eating and various forms of prejudice, the unhealthy eater label and its harms to agency are more likely to stick to some people than others and may reinforce patterns of oppression. I argue that fat people are especially vulnerable to this identification and the damage it can do. I then consider possible “counterstories” about unhealthy eaters, alternative narratives that might be less damaging to agency than the control narrative. I identify one promising counterstory but suggest that it may be limited when it comes to repairing damage to the agency of fat people. Overall, this paper illustrates some of the complex ways that healthism about eating affects agency, and emphasizes the ethical importance of the ways we think about and discuss eating and eaters.

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Detox diets for toxin elimination and weight management: a critical review of the evidence

Cited by 56 publications

References 80 publications

Physiological process of fat loss

Physiological process of fat loss

Effects of the Dietary Detoxification Program on Serum γ-glutamyltransferase, Anthropometric Data and Metabolic Biomarkers in Adults

Eating Identities, “Unhealthy” Eaters, and Damaged Agency

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